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a witch posted:You can buy them from the card page in the compendium, but not the store tab. oh. thx
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JollyPubJerk posted:so I can go buy a $10 burner phone, register a smurf, and poof, everyone's misery is not even an issue for my smurfs anymore.. https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing can't you just use something like this?
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Apr 21, 2017 03:28
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a witch posted:You pay $10 for access to low mmr ranked dota, and you think you're the smart one in this situation?
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Apr 21, 2017 05:22
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Pop-o-Matic Trouble posted:I might have to start playing ranked now same here. I have no idea why solo queue isn't a thing for unranked. At least in the highly populated servers. 4 stacks are an abomination.
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Apr 21, 2017 05:32
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tbh, I'm just looking forward to the next batch of excuses for your 9k brain being trapped in 4k dota
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Apr 21, 2017 06:42
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has solo q really been gone from dota 2 since 2014
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Apr 21, 2017 07:00
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I had been playing Dota in late 2013 (I only know this because I remember Skeleton King tragedy) and I don't remember seeing any solo options back then, so I'd guess it's been gone even longer than that.
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Apr 21, 2017 07:28
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i'm really impressed they maintained player counts with its absence
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Apr 21, 2017 07:41
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Relin posted:i'm really impressed they maintained player counts with its absence It didnt really. It's been in steady decline lately.  http://steamcharts.com/app/570#1y
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Apr 21, 2017 07:43
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IncendiaC posted:Genuinely curious, why? Never played CSGO (which has the same system) but unless I'm missing something, there's no reason not to link a phone number unless you just simply don't have one. i'm just generally not super happy about having to hand out private data to companies that don't really need them. i don't have a smurf so it's not about that. it's really just a privacy thing.
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Apr 21, 2017 11:04
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God you sound like the hipsters i know who go out their way to buy non fluoride toothpaste.
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Apr 21, 2017 11:07
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valve also has a history of massive boners when it comes to security. they're definitely on my low tier for companies i'd trust with personal info.
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Apr 21, 2017 11:08
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Macarius Wrench posted:God you sound like the hipsters i know who go out their way to buy non fluoride toothpaste. yeah well guess what buddy, i won't be the one mind controlled by the russians when the chips in your teeth get switched on
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Apr 21, 2017 11:39
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Facebook and google already know more about me than I do myself, so whatever gently caress IT, use me and abuse me Valve.
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Apr 21, 2017 12:20
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Do you people not wanting to do the phone number thing not have the authenticator because if not lol as hell, and if you do you click a single button and it goes ok u can ranked now
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Apr 21, 2017 12:38
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i get privacy concerns, i don't even have a facebook but like... its a phone number, if you call anyone ever marketing companies have it and again it's a phone number, what is going to happen aside from random spam calls?
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Apr 21, 2017 12:41
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FruitNYogurtParfait posted:and again it's a phone number, what is going to happen aside from random spam calls? This. Its not a big deal. You can even have amusing conversations with double glazing sales people. Bonus!
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Apr 21, 2017 12:52
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Gaben might call in the middle of the night and just breathe into the phone.
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Apr 21, 2017 13:59
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well if put it like this i'm actually on board
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Apr 21, 2017 14:08
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a witch posted:You pay $10 for access to low mmr ranked dota, and you think you're the smart one in this situation? wrecked
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ILL Machina posted:As always, it's worth saying that past performance for a given team name means very little, especially with small sample sizes and variable rosters, but they have very little else to use with that kind of model. They base everything off those numbers, but it's a nice little Monte Carlo primer. I assume he means that's how many times the sim ran?
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Apr 21, 2017 14:57
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So you trust Steam/Valve with your CC number but not your phone number? Or have you guys honestly never bought anything off of steam or something? Zand posted:https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing http://blog.dota2.com/2017/04/matchmaking-update/ posted:Online services that provide phone numbers are not allowed.
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Apr 21, 2017 15:32
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schmitty9800 posted:So you trust Steam/Valve with your CC number but not your phone number? Or have you guys honestly never bought anything off of steam or something? here's a thought: i've already given them my cc number, anything they don't need i'd rather not give them on top of that. i'm not sure why this is so hard to understand.
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Apr 21, 2017 18:30
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FruitNYogurtParfait posted:Do you people not wanting to do the phone number thing not have the authenticator because if not lol as hell, and if you do you click a single button and it goes ok u can ranked now thats what it did for me. didnt even realize i had my phone on my steam acc for 2fa since 99999999999 years ago
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Apr 21, 2017 18:42
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Seems worth it if it gets rid of smurfs and bought accounts.
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Craptacular! posted:I had been playing Dota in late 2013 (I only know this because I remember Skeleton King tragedy) and I don't remember seeing any solo options back then, so I'd guess it's been gone even longer than that. It was automatic. It saw you were queuing by yourself and tried to match you with only other solo players. The variability of quality games increased a tonne when they removed it and I even quit for a while because getting stuck with a 4 stack is even worse than getting stuck with a feeder and is far more common.
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botany posted:here's a thought: i've already given them my cc number, anything they don't need i'd rather not give them on top of that. i'm not sure why this is so hard to understand. So every time you buy something on Steam you leave this blank?
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Apr 21, 2017 19:04
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No one fills that out every time they buy something. If your selection was just a little bit bigger...
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botany do you not have 2-step verification on your account? That seems rather insecure in this day and age.
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I'm remembering that brief beautiful period when HoN had strict solo queue and it was so good. RIP
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Apr 21, 2017 19:54
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I would have preferred the Social Security Number requirement for queuing US but this is fine too
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steakmancer posted:I would have preferred the Social Security Number requirement for queuing US but this is fine too Ahh, the South Korean approach.
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steakmancer posted:I would have preferred the Social Security Number requirement for queuing US but this is fine too
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a witch posted:You pay $10 for access to low mmr ranked dota, and you think you're the smart one in this situation? Thank you.
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Smythe posted:$10 is a good filter for keeping the bulk of the dregs out. if the psychological hurdle of  is enough to combat smurfs I'm not sure what to tell youthe 40 game limit already stops the vast majority of it. people are paying whatever minimal amount of money it takes to get those in the first place for their smurfs already. none of this money goes to Valve either. if you think is necessary to combat it, well, you must have some sort of stake in thinking that money is a barrier required for good moderation.the flaw has always been their lovely attitude about LPQ (and the MM formula) and their lovely methods of implementation, not the entire country of Peru. JollyPubJerk fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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a witch posted:You pay $10 for access to low mmr ranked dota, and you think you're the smart one in this situation? you realize that people use smurfs at their same mmr so they can play ranked, get LPQ, pay someone else to get rid of LPQ, and play on the smurf(s) meantime, right? 
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Kibner posted:Ahh, the South Korean approach. China too. That's why half the pc bangs have sketchy black networks you need to do special things on the computer to access, since the number of hours minors play on the computer is tied to your ID card (no matter where you play) and is heavily restricted. also why when the pc bang owner knows the inspector is coming he comes and shut downs white guy's computer and forces him to go out the back door even though he's in the middle of a DotA game because white guy isn't going to have a card. JollyPubJerk fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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How much of the player base do you think really is going to go out there and buy burner phones so they can play some dude 1000 mmr below them in lane. The previous barrier was 'make a free account' and 'play a few games of dota which you are doing anyways'
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:How much of the player base do you think really is going to go out there and buy burner phones so they can play some dude 1000 mmr below them in lane. that's not the reason for most smurfing I see. people are either buying accts with higher mmr and then tanking them cause they suck, avoiding lpq on others, trying to hide games from others, or playing an alternate while their main is getting boosted. maybe twenty people are playing on accts 1k lower because of queue times and Valve's too stupid to get MM right. people playing low mmr games to play lower skilled dota just party queue. the mmr inflates so bad that unless you're poopsocking half the time there's no way your two rankings are equal anymore.
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JollyPubJerk posted:you realize that people use smurfs at their same mmr so they can play ranked, get LPQ, pay someone else to get rid of LPQ, and play on the smurf(s) meantime, right?
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